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Topic: easi (er) method for post reinstall ? (Read 1862 times)

after 15 straight hours of installs /setup attempts at troubleshooting then reinstalling and more device template REcreation, I was sitting shell shocked with my nth. cup of tea when an idea popped up,

..... would it be possible to save the web admin site (or parts, or separate pages) as an html doc

and then use the files after a clean install, to replace the virgin pages /site just created,

There is a backup/restore functionality in the web admin, which should backup and restore all setting (not sure exactly what settings are covered). But I'm not sure if this works currently, I guess you would have to try it.

If you create device templates, you should really look into having them submitted and approved in LMCE, that way, you wont have to recreate them every time, and others can also benefit from them.

I just saw this as a very user friendly way of preserving a half decent , easily restorable set of config files,so that I, ( ie learners) could experiment and learn , without the cost of having to re-research half understood concepts, and in my case avoid a lot of the frustration of just physically typing it all back in,

Would it even be possible ? timing of orbiter regens/router reloads spring to mind ?

I can recommend using Clonezilla on a USB external disk. Take a snapshot of the bnefore, and then if it gets hosed, it only takes minutes to restore. I have an old 100G laptop hardrive inone of those little $15 USB enclosures, installed the Clonezilla iso to it, and then set the rest of the drive up for storage.

I use Clonezilla, unetbootin.

Before every major update/install, I take a snapshot/backup of the non-hosed version. Gets you back up and running in 20 minutes or less

Regards,

Seth

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